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St. Landry democrat., 1887-09-24

VERMILLION.
Nichols Clubs Organizing Throughout
the Parish-Preparations for the
Barbecue
ABBEvILLE, La. Sept. I.-[Special.l i
A large and enthusiastic meeting of the
Democracy of Vermillion parish was
held at Abbeville to-day to. prepare for
the mass meeting and barbecue to be
held here on the 2Sth inst, on behalf of
Governor Nichols. Short but stirring
addresses were made by Captain D. B.
Gorham of Lake Charles and Judge C..
DeBallion Of Lafayette.
Committees on arrangement, finance,
barbecue and reception were appointed.
Much feeling and interest were mani
tested, Count Vermillion solid almost
to a man for Nichols.
This evening tho Nichols Central
| Campaign Club of Vermillion parish
was organized " 18th forty members, with
| the following officers:
WE White, president; Lastie Brous-
| sard, vice president; Gus Godchaux,
secretary, and Eli Wise, treasurer.
Nichols clubs are organizing through
out the parish.
St. Landry democrat., 1887-09-24

Life estimates the number OF American
visitors to England this year at 10000. 1t
places the average expenditure OF each
American tourist at s10o, resulting III bene-
ftE to English trades Qeepls Of aTeg $4,000, 700,
St. Landry democrat., 1887-09-24
IBERIA.
ORGANIZATION of Nichols Club-Ar
for fba barbecue

IBERIA.
ORGANIZATION Of Nichols Club-Ar-
engagements for the Barbecue
NEW IBERIA, Sept. 2l.-LSpeci2LI-
Last evening at 7:30 at Eraths Hail q
Nichols meeting was called to order by
General Robt. S. Perry, who IN brief
terms stated the object of the meeting
to be to organize committee VINO shall
make ARRANGEMENTS for the reception
of General Nichols on the 9th INST,
and to take charge Of the meeting 10 DO
held upon that date.
The election of a chairman and secre-
tary being III order, General Perry was
unanimously elected president ana L.
| 4. Willard secretary.
On motion a committee OF ten was
| appointed with their duties as above
| designated, and were further authorized
| to a0point such b-committees as they
might deem necessary. The committee
| is composed of the following gentlemen !:
| w. Il. Sattertield. Jos. A. Breaux, VIM.
| LoVd. Felix Patout, A. l.. Monnot, A. &.
Bernard Fred Duperier. j. D. Brous-
| sard, Juo. NJ. Avery and Octave no.
nero.
! At this point in the proceedings mo-
| t,on was made to organize a Nichols
club and adopted.
| In response to request General Perry
| outlined the object OF such course and
the advantages to BIO derived theTefrom.
He characterized the present campaign
as contest not against the old enemies
of the Democratic party, but between
| friends, or political family affair, as 1t
were.
Mr.. T. d. Foster was unanimously
elected president of the club: He ad,
dressed the meeting in a few well
chosen remarks. giving his ideas of the
necessity of such an organization and
expressing the hope that the present
campaign would not be flelghted with
the bitterness which has so consplcu.
onsly characterized the campaigns OF
the past. He regretted that vltupera.
tion and abuse should be lndulged by
either faction, thinking that the merlts
of the candidates could Dc Dettel
presented without.
Messrs, Hartwell, Hart and .. Z
Romero were elected wee presidents
and Mr. L. L. Willard was elected secre'
tary and treasurer.
A form of constitution was theI
presented, adopted and signed ny
long list of names of parties who there
nv became members of the club.
The secretary was authorized to con
Time the list open for signatures OF al
persons who wished to become mem
bers.
would be held at the same place OF
Saturday next at $50 p. N. The meet
ing then adjourned.
< heavy and prolong ed rain fell herr
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-30

A RAID ON VICE.

Two thousand people packed the big
gest hall in Stockton, CAL, last Sunday
afternoon. Rev. a. G. Bane, of the
Methodist Church South, was the sensa-
tion. He preached the furtherance of a
crusade now being made by the local
clergy against vice. Mr.. Bane drew the
curtain from immoral midnight hacks,
and lighted up depraved lumber yards
and wicked private lodging.houses. He
attacked saloons. corner groceries, gam.
bling, billiard halls, beer wagons, opium
joints, ~girl.catchers and bagnios. he
cited an instance of female carousal un.
der a railroad bridge with tramps; an in.
stance Of o girls midnight escape through
her bedroom window, and several other
instances of a like nature. He attacked
q local theater where beer is sold in the
boxes, and asserted that many young
girls f~requented the tules at night with
young men, for the purpose OF smoking
opium and drinking. In response to his
call for o vote on the question, at the
conclusion of his discourse the meeting
unanimously decided that a grand mass.
meeting of all church members should
be held at the Avon Theater, for the pur.
pose of influencing the Council to remove
the ~disreputable quarter especially, and
to correct other evils as much as pos.
sible. Five local pastors sat on the plat
form during the speech.
The towns immortality was preached
from all the pulpits at night. Two
pastors opposed Bane's method, but the
others favored it. The local clergy have
hired a detective to unearth the towns
wickedness.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-30

We are not surprised to learn, says the
New York Sun, that when we suggested
the other day the nam of William I.
Coleman, Of San Francisco, as that Of a
man fit to be President. an idea was ex.
pressed to which the large number Of
Californians residing in this city could
not be Indifferent. So far as we are
aware, Mr.. Coleman never held or sought
any public Office, but his abilities are of
the first order. His heart beats always
with the warm blood Of genuine Democ.
racy, and his biography would make a
campaign text book of extraordinary in.
terest. If California should really con.
clude to present MI. Coleman as her
candidate, she would be listened to with
respect and sympathy by the whole
Union. But we fear the country will
not soon have so good a President as he
would make.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-30
ruE CARSON 1 y

Regarding the probable close OF the
Mint at Carson the Salt Lake Tribune
remarks: The ~dismantling Of the Mint
will be a mistake; we know it will be an
Injustice. Nevada has contributed to
the gold and silver supply of the United
States nearly or quite $500, 600. 600. That
product is not like any other. Money Is
the active principle of business, and be-
ing SO, what Nevada has yielded counts
more in the progress of the country than
the product of any agricultural State
Minnesota yields $50, 600, 600 worth OF
bread annually; but that bread has o
price, because out Of the deserts and the
hills men have dug money. On the pro-
duct of the desert, the value of the pro-
duct of the fruitful valley is estimated;
according to the quantity which the
desert yields the price Of the valleys
product oscillates backward and forward.
The food of Minnesota lasts but q year
or two; the gold and silver of Nevada is
indestructible, and renews its youth
every day or year. Its vitalizing 'orce
never ceases; its presence means life and
action, it's absence means stagnation; to
business it is what the running gear IS to
o coach, what the engine or water.wheel
is to a factory. The train may be loaded
with passengers, but it does not move
until the locomotive is attached; the
factory may be full of spindles, looms
and wool or cotton, and naked men may
stand outside by thousands and want the
cloth; but it is all useless until a lever is
turned, and through it every wheel sud-
denly grows instinct with motion. so
the world may be full of what men call
property, but asidesfrom a little barter,
the property does not count until elec'
triied and measured by money. Of this
material which makes the standard OF
values, and which is the moving spring
of business, Nevada has contributed
more than any other State or Territory
except California, and in return about
all that she has received is the little old
Mint which it is now proposed to DIS
mantle and sell. 1t is not an honest
deal. 1t is not a fair return to make to
the men of the desert. Nevada, Utah
and Idaho will this year produce between
$50, O0O, 900 and $40, 000, 900 in gold and
silver, which ough. to be coined and put
in circulation. If by a stroke OF good
sense both metals could be cast into in.
gots and the certificates of their value
be set in circulation, the Mint will still
be needed to refine, assay and stamp the
bars. There in no more sense in closing
down and dismantling the Carson Mint
than there would be in moving the flour
mills from Minneapolis.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-30
w AN II d

IF THERE ia ANY LADY OR GENTLEMAN
l. In Eureka, Nevada, who has had some ex-
p~erisDce in q Dental Office as an operator, DR..
III. Leek would like to employ them for q
while to assist him while the rush OF business
lasts. Call at his office.
Eureka, January 20, 1887. ja3O-lt
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-30
Miss Emmon. Declared Sane.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-The jury in
the Emmons lunacy trial has rem
dered a verdict that Miss Emmons
is sane, and capable of managing her
own affairs.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-30
Should Become n Law.

The Reno Gazette Gays the bill intro
duced by Senator Harris Of Douglas
county to ''prevent drunkenness in OF.
fee, should become a law. and summary
means should be provided to rid the PEG.
pie of every drunken official, from Cover
nor TO Road Master.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-30
A Large Bank Deficit.
Arrested for Conspiracy.

New York, Jan. 29.-James E
Quinn, of the Executive Board o.
the Longshoremen's Union, was ar.
rested to-day by a Deputy United
States Marshal, for conspiring to in
jure the business of the Old Domin'
ion Steamship Company. Twenty
thousand dollars in damages are
asked. He was released on $4,000
bail.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-30
Music Lessons.

J. M. Navoni, professor Of music, has
decided to remain in Eureka this Winter,
and will be pleased to confer with any de-
string instructions on the violin, piano
and guitar. Special attention paid 10 the
cultivation Of the voice. Leave orders at
Capron's drug store.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-30

Costiveness cured by ID D Dat Ca.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-30

Sick haeadsche cured by I'D DD"-ai
Capron's.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-07
Natural Gas and Petroleum.

To meet general demand A. H. Smythe,
of Columbus, Ohio, will publish on April
18th limited edition of the "Prelimin-
ary Report on Petroleum and Infamable
Gas in Ohio" by Prof. Edward Orton, State
Geologist. ..
This is the only volume which treats at
length of the new horizon of Gas and Oil in
Ohio and Indiana, viz: the Trenton Lime
stone. The conditions under which Gas and
Oil are found in this rock, the districts with
in which they can be looked for with most
promise of success, and the reasons for
failure or success in particular districts are
pointed out. The most practical modes of
measuring the flow of gas wells ever publish
ed are described in this volume.
The Preliminary Report of 1886 is reprint
ed entire, and to it Supplement is added,
containing the more recent facts in the new
fields.
A map of the gas-producing belts of Ohio
as at present developed is added, and also a
new map of great interest, showing the
topography of the Trenton Limestone in
Western Ohio and by implication in Eastern
Indiana. 1854, 5,.,4a. as.,
The volume is timely, and intelligent
readers will be sure to avail themselves ot
this, the first opportunity. to purchase it. II
will contain 175 to 200 pages.
Price, bound in paper, $1.00; in cloth $1.25
Address A. H. Smythe, Columbus, 0.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-07
StartingT Omatoes.

Tomato plants, to produce early fruit
must be Of some early variety and must
be started early. Those not having the
convenience Of hot-beds, etc., can SOW
the seeds in boxes in the house; and
when the young plants have three or
four leaves in addition to the seed
leaves they can be transplanted into
other boxes, giving more room, say two
inches square to each plant, though
three inches square will be better. After
growing two or three weeks in their
new position they may be again trans
planted, giving still more room. This
second transplanting, If near the first
of April, may be into the cold frame,
in which they may remain until it will
be safe to remove to the open ground.
These frequent transplantings give the
plants a sturdy character wholly un-
like the long spindling ones which are
allowed to remain where the seed was
sown, and which when planted out
finally are unable to sustain their own
weight. tE
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-07

.B After banishing beer, the Prohibi-
tionists of Iowa are now making crusade
against cider. In Des Moines recently the
Prohibition spies seized a keg of cider be-
longing to one Jacob Hueglin and accused
him of violating the law in having so deadly
an agent of intoxication in his possession
As it was not strong cider he believed he was
not violating the law in using it. But the
Justice of the Peace declared the fluid to be
intoxicating and ordered it to be destroyed.
The head of the keg was accordingly knock
ed in and the contents poured in the streets
as warning to all other offenders. 1t is
just such little and unjust exactions of the
fanatical element of prohibition that turns
intelligent men against it.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-07
DAISY.

April is beginning TO show forth her
tickle nature.
Rev. L. F. Ames, of Defiance, was in
Florida last Sabbath.
.... Yesterday ended the mighty struggle
for official favor for few months at least.
Mrs. F. N. Brubaker and daughter
Flora, were guests of the family OF John
Nischwitz last Sabbath.
Surprise parties seemed the ruling spir-
it of last week and quitting bees are becom-'
ing the order of the day.
Mr.. Keiser and wife, of Defiance, we're
quests of the family of Shelton Wilson part
of Saturday and Sunday last.
-. Rev. M. G. Howey presided over quar-
terly meeting at Ayersville Saturday and
Sunday, March 26th and 9th. ....
-. Revival meeting at Independence, con
Quoted by Rev. M. G. Howey, pastor.
Quite degree of interest is manifested.
-. John Kerstetter and wife, of Napoleon.
are spending some days with the family OF
his brother Lee; they contemplate moving
here.
.Messrs. W. j. Barr and wife and L. W.
Barr and wife spent Friday with the family
of their nephew, Philip Rowe, near Ridge
vile. fey
Luther Tovermyer and Misses Heils-
horn and Susie Nef, of Ayersville, were
guests of the family of Shelton Wilson on
Sunday. ~f
Ransom Holibert and wife, former
residents of this county, but now residents
of Michigan, have returned to their old home
in Holgate.
IS. w. Barr expects to start next week
on trip to Missouri and Kansas for the
benefit of his health. His friends hope the
trip may prove beneficial.
Mrs. Hank Andrew was the guest fol
several days last week of her sister, Mrs. G
D. Long, of South Napoleon. She was &C.
companied home by her nieces, Misses Nat.
tie and Mary Ice.
.Grandfatherly honors have fallen tc
the lot of Sam Jones, sr. Born March 26th
to Will Jones and wife son, weight 816 lbs
Grandpa Jones will now have to wear his
cap with the foxes brush ornament.
... Mrs. ]. w. Long and two little sons
accompanied her brother, D. G: Durbin, tc
the home of their parents, VIM. Durbin's, o1
Texas, O., Saturday, March 26th. Returned
on Wednesday accompanied by her brother
Del. On Thursday and Friday attended the
Teachers institute at Defiance.
"A serious accident occurred at Inde
pendence on Sunday last, resulting in {
very serious injury and is feared may ter
inmate fatally yet to old Mrs. Maugher, one
of the early pioneers of the Maumee Valley
She was riding in wagon and the horses
starting up suddenly threw her out, crushing
her terribly about the breast and otherwise
injuring her. Many friends deeply sympa
thize with her in this serious affiiction.
Mrs. Henry Bordner, of Montpelier
Williams county, come down on Saturday OF
business and to visit relatives. Her daughte
Mary, teacher of one of the Holgate Prima
ries, after weeks vacation spent with he
parents at Montpelier returned with he
mother ready to begin her duties on Monday
Many friends will regret much to learn O.
the very delicate health of Mrs. Bordner'
eldest daughter. Mrs. Henry Frickie.
Ia general moving and changing abou
in town last week. .GATHEBER.
Florida, April 9th.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-07
A Real Democrat.

The New York Star in its definition of
what constitutes Democrat says, and says
truthfully, that O real Democrat is a Demo-
crat about every thing-about politics,
morals, religion and personal conduct. He
carries his Democracy into his daily walk,
applies it to the men and women he meets,
and to all the problems, social and industrial,
that he may encounter.
A Democrat is against moral legislation OF
all kinds, for he thinks it is not the part OF
government to make men good. H remem-
bers that the Master did not speak to the
lawgivers, nor ask that men should be con-
strained to do his bidding. He himself
spake to the Republicans and sinners, and
placed his less ons upon their hearts and
minds. A Democrat does not think that
freemen should be sent to prison upon the
testimony of accompleces ank prejurers. He
knows that his own safety and the safety Of
those he loves depends upon the ancient
laws, which receives such testimony with
suspicion, and reject it unless it be cor.
roborated. Democrat looks with gener.
GUS eyes upon the working people who are
weary and heavy laden, and listens to their
complaints with strong desire to find way
to relieve them. A Democrat does not wait
to see what the people favor. He knows
what they ought to favor, and if they are
following false lights, he tells them so, con-
fident that at some time they will return to
the straight path.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-07

s9 The New York Star, in assigning rea-
sons for the failure of President Cleveland
to sign the Rivers and Harbors bill, says:
The facts are simply these: The Rivers and
Harbors bill has steadily increased in the
nature and extent of its criminal profiigacy.
While the Democratic House has endeavored
to keep its inroads within bounds, the Re-
publican Senate has as studiously striven to
aggravate its voracity and its recklessness.-
1t has long been evident that large percen-
tage of the money appropriated for rivers
and harbors is utter waste, so far as con-
Germs any national end. Millions have been
was ted-fung away-in fruitless and imbe-
cile pretense of improving the Mississippi
River. Other millions have been scattered
on obscure creeks and unknown duck ponds
in Mi chigan, North Carolina and Pennsyl-
vania and dozen other States. Although
much of this annual appropriation has been
dev tied to useful and legitimate ends, much
m IRE has been frittered away in manner as
scandalous as futile. Thus, when the Rivers
and Harbors bills of this year, extravagant
enough as it left the House, came back from
the Senate saddled with number of iagrant
jobs, the President failed to see that any
consideration of the public good required
him to sacrifice the scant time remaining to
an examination of that bill at the expense OF
others that were notoriously necessary and
deserving. It is not true that he seeks to
curry favor in one quarter by his neglect,
while he placates bafied rapacity in another
by transferring to Congress the responsible
ty for the failure. The President would not
have signed the bill in its present shape if he
had unlimited leisure at his disposal.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-07
RICHFIELD.
d. E. MocRAT.
Deshler, April 9th, 1887.

80. Candidates look saur to-day.
Oats sowing is in full blast.
.. Roads are good in this locality.
Wheat looks bad in the neghborhood.
....Soon time to begin to plow for corn.
I'M. F. Barney has moved to Grelton.
IF. j. Lebay visited in Milton to-day.
Martha Roberts left for Florida yes
terday.
Considerable opposition at election
yesterday.
wv. Hits, of Hamler, has moved to
West Hope
49,. Blanche Winner is spending week
with her parents.
Taylor Winner has built new picket
fence around his yard.
-. Frank Lebay spent Saturday evening
with the Carol family of Monroe. ...
... Roll Stout and Lydia Roberts, OF
Florida, spent Sunday in Richfeld.
The Misses Eliza and Addie Jackson
visited with the Misses Roberts Sunday.
-. Ben Lebay will work for George Light.
ihser, of Harrison to wnship this summer.
81. B. and George Garwood have re
turned from their trip to Logan county, o.
There is man in Richfeld, who will
trade horses and get beat, and replevin hi
horse and then pay the constable with
bushel of potatoes. Rather bad on the con
stable we think. ..r...
... On Sunday while G. McDonnoll an
Ed. Downward was playing with revolver
went off, the bullet passing in close proximit
to Chas. knee and lodging in chest. 1t wa
a close call and it will learn lthe boys les
son.
go, Oh how pleasant, only three wedding
in Richfeld last week. Charles Hanifor
and Barbara Withem, John Murrel an
Frances Beavers, VIM. Wade and Estell
Robson, were the contracting parties. Ma
peace and prosperity be their lot.
| -. On Saturday of last week while Jessie
the youngest daughter of Taylor Winner, wa
playing with cap used to explode dynamit,
it exploded, tearing her hands SO bad ths
the thumb and fore finger of her left han
had to be amputated at the knuckle, an
badly lacerating her other hand and fac,
DR.. Newhouse dressed the wound, and it
doing we'll. They have the sympathy of the
many friends in their sad accident.
PLowBoY.
West Hope, April 9th, 1887.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-07
A New Gag.

A gang of swindlers has just been unearth-
ed that have been operating in different
sections quite successfully. Their scheme is
rather novel and bears on its face every
mark of genuiness, and it is pretty slick
farmer that escapes. These men go in pairs,
and their business is to watch the weekly
newspapers for stock that has been taken up
and advertised. Soon as one of these notices
is found one of the men goes to the party
who has taken the stock up and inspects it
carefully, but he is very sorry to find that the
lost animal is not his. He then goes back to
his partner and gives him full description
of the property, and if there is any special
mark or blemish on the beast a note is made
of it. Then in day or two the second man
goes to the farmer and says: 81 see you have
taken up horse (as the case may by and as
one of mine strayed away some time since, ]
would like to see the animal" 'Oh, yes,
certainly. Iwould have no objection to des-
cribing it," and then will follow descrip-
ton, which is always finished with the re-
mark that 'T can identify the horse in a
minute if he is mine, by a." and then
some little, peculiar mark is named that was
found by the first man. The farmer looks
for this, finds it, the Identification is COM
plete, and the stock is to be turned over,
when the sharper, half hesitating, says some
thing about selling it, Then, in his own
''slick" way, he makes cash sale, the farmer
agreeing to pay the advertising bill. In due
time the rightful owner puts in an appear
ance, claims and proves up the property, and
the farmer realizes that he has been taken in
and done for. The trick is "good one,' >
and as rule, works to perfection.